This article is published in number 9 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until March 2, 2021
Have you ever felt your skin? To tremble, to defend yourself, to sit down, to press, to direct you, to get wet, to hesitate, to hold you, to hurt yourself, to pull, to go against you, to mend yourself? Antonio Aiello his yes: he is “Arab”, he says, “Norman and Bourbon together”, “in a word, southern”.
«I remember that I warmed up in the sun on a concrete wall that divided the beach from the road, in Fuscaldo, the town in the province of Cosenza where I spent my summers as a child.
I had a hard time getting on it but then, sitting there, in front of me there was the infinite sea ». He is the author of the most daring verses of the Sanremo Festival: That night you and me / ibuprofen sex / 13 hours in a bed / celebrating my saint. «Now it’s a sex-centric song. A confession that gravitates around this sex, often toxic, at times liberating, at others curative, even if with me it was not enough. In being missing or exaggerated, canonical or extreme, however it is a crucial thought in everyone’s life ». We talk about it, and a sort of dictionary comes out. With the words that accompany him most. Between the personal and the universal.
Marital status.
“Single. It is neither freedom nor solitude. But knowing the measurements of your mattress, and knowing who to want or not want inside ».
Make love.
«A rare, special event that depends on us up to a certain point: terrestrial, but also very ‘celestial’, an astral combination».
Sex without love, on the other hand.
«For the mechanisms of the mind that always govern us and are often more insistent than any abandonment, a sex not even totally enjoyed. What a while I wanted to show myself as a dragon in bed, as I always wrote in my text, I was still throwing the rubble out of the room ».
Fluidity.
«I sing it: I couldn’t tell you that you reminded me of her, you reminded me of him, I was just out. And everything that comes to mind is welcomed. Fortunately, intimacy, like belonging, has no colors, categorizations, definitions, limits ».
First time.
“Magical and awkward. When I’m happy, excited, I can’t control the muscles around my mouth ».
The best.
“Where honesty and imagination resist, which are also the virtues of great men, my grandfather claimed.”
The strangest one.
«When I realized that something was happening around me, in 2019, later Arsenic: the record companies started looking for me, and I physically entered rooms where they sat and breathed music giants ».
The music.
«With me from the juke box of the Bar Ristori, where he used to go
Lemon Tree of the Fools Garden e Infinity of Raf, since I looked at her with dreamy eyes, in my feeling different, strange, broken, destined for her ».
The body.
«Matter from which we cannot ignore. Intertwining of legs and arms under the sheets. Sitting at the table, feel the pulse of the other. Safe harbor. We are never alone with the body ».
Orgasm.
“Climb to the highest point of the mountain, to the vertiginous summit, better for two”.
Enjoyment.
“As a child, at the rides. Now I also try it with tiramisu, carbonara, pizza with potatoes ».
Abstinence.
“Debilitating.”
Promiscuity.
“I don’t have a great CV in this area, however, healthy and open, I’ve been to places I never imagined going to.”
Limits.
“The beauty is when they fall, and it is always a matter of encounters and circumstances that always make everything unprecedented”.
Coitus interrupted.
«I live, with the tsunami of the pandemic. Until two years ago, not even my mother was spinning. Then, with Ex-vote, tour sold out, but the emptiness came too soon ».
Obsessions.
«The big boys and the coming out. It doesn’t matter what you do, with whom, if you declare it, but if you like it: don’t lie to yourself ».
Blood.
“It has to do with the sacred and the profane. What runs in my veins belongs to different peoples: Arabs, Spaniards, Greeks are in it. The Normans, the Bourbons ».
Indecent proposals.
“Exist. They are the ones that, in order to have something you care about in return, require an effort from your person. As such they have the flavor of violence, of alienation ».
Condom.
“Protection. Be safe. To take care of. Kindness”.
Passion.
«Light, vortex, victory over death. More eros, less porn. You suffer from porn, you do eros ».
The night.
«In the morning I never wake up sad, but it is in the dark that I have always felt at home. I speak to the Moon. I ask you things. I believe her. Sometimes I get angry. Others move me ».
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